Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Dirk van den Heuvel is an Associate Professor with the Department of Architecture at TU Delft, where he leads the section Building Knowledge and the research group Architecture Archives of the Future. He's the head and co-founder of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre, the research collaboration between TU Delft and the Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam. His expertise is in modern architecture, welfare state policies, housing and planning, and their related fields of cultural studies and discourse analysis with a special interest in archives and exhibitions. He's the author of numerous publications, among which Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture (2020), Jaap Bakema and the Open Society (2018), and Architecture and the Welfare State (2015, with M. Swenarton and T. Avermaete). Dirk received a Getty grant to visit the Getty Research Institute, he has been a visiting scholar at Monash University, Melbourne, and was awarded with a Richard Rogers Fellowship from Harvard GSD. He was the curator of the Dutch pavilion for the 14th architecture exhibition of the Venice Biennale. The recently established group Architecture Archives of the Future positions itself at the intersections of advanced architectural design and research, history and theory, archival studies and museology. The group aims to develop innovative methods of architectural knowledge production based on the new opportunities presented by digital technologies including VR and XR, while building on Delft traditions of plan analysis and precedent research. Questions behind the research and education of the group are design-driven with the aim to contribute to the urgent societal questions of today, including the ones of climate change impact, and the socio-political ideas around democracy and diversity in open societies. Dirk is a curator of various major exhibitions, among others at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, and the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. For Bureau Europa, Maastricht he curated the show Changing Ideals: Re-thinking the House. With Max Risselada he organised two international exhibitions and publications: Team 10, In Search of a Utopia of the Present and Alison and Peter Smithson, from the House of the Future to a house of today. Dirk has been an editor to the publication series DASH, Delft Architectural Studies on Housing, as well as the theory journals Footprint, and OASE. Currently, he's a board member for the architecture research journal VLC Arquitectura.
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